Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there may be "50 million movie-going males" from 15 to 65 in this country, and I am not going to be the one to say this is a lie. But I happen to be one of them, and my wife wants to know what is all this about Mae West and me. Now I have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what...
Nine-tenths worn out by the Court struggle and Washington heat. Congressmen had so little inclination for attacking any new problems that the New Deal was reported anxious to postpone the revised Court Bill for fear that Congress would just lie down like a tired mule once it was disposed of. The result was something approaching a new deadlock, this time between the Presidential will and Congressional fatigue. There was some talk about adjournment and reconvening in October as a way out, but everybody except possibly the President and most ardent New Dealers was just a little too tired...
From the observation platform high up Montfaucon Memorial tourists can peer across five miles of the world's bloodiest ground to Meuse-Argonne cemetery. There lie buried over 14,000 U. S. soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
...love. Maureen does not suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain Wiltshire after Inspector Hannay's gun jams. When Maureen nevertheless helps Captain Wiltshire to escape a Sinn Fein trap, the Inspector realizes where her affections lie and, as a final gallant gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself...
Lawyer Liebowitz' jury miracles are for the most part based on his understanding of human reactions and on simple tricks. Witnesses who will tell the truth on big things, often lie about little ones. The police had a tight case against a holdup suspect. Although they didn't need it to convict, they introduced the man's own signed confession, secured at police headquarters. Fifteen police denied any third-degree methods. Liebowitz asked an old deputy chief inspector on the stand: "How long have you been a police officer?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever beat...